JD Samson is a musician/artist/activist best known for being a member of the band, Le Tigre. She is 37.

What's something that used to matter tremendously to you but no longer feels important in your 30s?

It's funny, my old band mate, Kathleen Hanna used to say that your 30s are all about saying yes, and your 40s are all about saying no. And so I think that I have spent my 30s kind of saying yes to more things and appreciating living and kind of like accepting challenges and trying my best and not being so fearful.

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What do you worry about?

I worry about most everything all the time because that's my personality. But the one thing I worry about the most is kind of like how my fanbase perceives me, and making everyone happy all the time.

What are you saving up for?

I think I'm saving up for the time in my life when I'm unsure about how I'm going to make money. So generally I'm just saving up for living in my retirement age.

When you were 13, what did you think your life would look like at 30, how is it different?

I think my life is pretty similar to what I thought it would be as a 13-year-old. I think that I am an artist, and I live in New York. I'm queer, and radical, and don't really care that much about what the mainstream thinks of my decisions or of me. I feel pretty happy with that.

I think my relationship with my body has stayed pretty similar over the past 15 years or so. As a woman, but being masculine, it's been interesting for me to kind of like navigate how to live through society and what people think of me. But I think that in general I feel proud to live in the body that I'm in, although once I turned 30 and as I get older, my body seems to become more womanly. And I think that that's more complicated for me so I have to kind of figure out ways in which to make sure that I constantly feel good about my body.